Overview With the release of VMware NSX 4.0 VMware announced the deprecation of NSX standard load balancer and the intention to replace it with NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi Networks). This is not quite a new message since the advise to adopt NSX ALB for greenfield deployments has been out and followed for quite […]
Overview In part two of this blog post, we will be using NSX DFW to micro-segment containerised application running inside an openshift cluster based on OKD 4.12 which we previously integrated with NSX using VMware Antrea in part one of this blog post. This is going to be fairly a short post since most of […]
Overview VMware Antrea and NSX extend advanced data centre networking and security capabilities to containerised workloads and offer a single pane of glass for organisations so that security admins can configure micro-segmentation policies rules to both containers and standard workloads (VMs and bare metals) from the same NSX UI. VMware Antrea and NSX integration is […]
Overview Multi-tenancy is the ability to offer NSX networking and security services to multiple tenants completely isolated from each other. Every tenant will also have its own RBAC configuration and can be assigned quotas to limit the number of objects that can be created inside a tenant. Multi-Tenancy has been a long awaited feature in […]
Overview This is part two of blog series I started to cover the most recent security features introduced in VMware Antrea 1.6.0 (based on project Antrea 1.9.0) and NSX 4.1. I find this release of VMware Antrea and NSX has elevated containers security in the Enterprise to a higher level by introducing the ability to […]
Overview Last year, I wrote a blog post series covering containers networking and security using VMware Antrea and NSX-T 3.2 and it was the highlight of my blogging work last year and I have received many positive feedback over that topic. Since then, I have been active in tracing new features that VMware Antrea keeps […]
Overview NSX ALB (previously known as Avi) offers rich capabilities for L4-L7 load balancing across different clouds and for different workloads. However if you run vSphere with Tanzu (TKGs) on top of NSX-T networking, NSX-T will deploy standard NSX load balancers to offer L4 load balancing for guest Tanzu clusters cluster-api and subsequent loadbalancer services […]
Overview In part two of my blog series covering Kubernetes/Tanzu as a service using cloud director and CSE 4.0, I will continue the deployment workflow started in part one, the workflows covered in part two will include NSX ALB integration with Cloud Director and eventually deploying a Tanzu cluster inside Tenant Pindakaas which we created […]
Overview In a previous blog post series (part one and part two) I covered how service providers can offer Tanzu as a Service (TaaS) to their tenants based on vSphere with Tanzu enabled vSphere clusters, this offers a native out-of-the-box capability of Cloud Director and vSphere to offer Tanzu clusters natively to tenants without the […]
Overview During a recent incident I accidentally deleted a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster which had Antrea CNI integrated with NSX. To my surprise, there was no way for NSX to identify that this cluster was not present anymore and all the cluster inventory information (nodes, namespaces, pods, etc.) were still visible in NSX manager UI under […]
